The crew

The people behind Venus.

A small crew with wide coverage — software engineering, infrastructure, systems integration, and design. Each teammate runs their own practice and partners with Venus on client work, so you get specialists without the handoffs.

Ryan Somerville

Ryan Somerville

Software Engineer

Full-stack · architecture · founder

Founder and principal engineer. Full-stack builds, custom platforms, and the architecture underneath — with a decade-plus of shipping production systems for clients across the country.

Business
Allsite Multimedia
Experience
13+ years experience
Home base
Madison, WI
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Theo Marsh

DevOps Engineer

CI/CD · cloud · observability

Owns the pipelines, the cloud, and the on-call. Turns manual deploys into one-click releases, and turns “it’s down” into an alert that fires before anyone notices.

Business
Marsh Reliability Co.
Experience
11+ years experience
Home base
Denver, CO
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Nadia Okonkwo

CRM Specialist

Integrations · automation · reporting

Connects the tools a business already runs on — CRM, billing, support, marketing — into one system that stays in sync. Data pipelines, automations, and reporting people actually trust.

Business
Okonkwo Systems
Experience
9+ years experience
Home base
Austin, TX
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June Castellano

Creative Lead

Brand · UI · design systems

Sets the visual direction: brand systems, interface design, and the small details that make a product feel considered. Design in service of the engineering, not the other way around.

Business
Castellano Studio
Experience
12+ years experience
Home base
Portland, OR

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Are you an engineer, designer, or other local talent who likes shipping real systems? We’d like to hear from you.

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Based in Madison, Wisconsin, we’re committed to operating on principles of tolerance, acceptance, and equal opportunity.

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One crew, from architecture to launch to on-call. Tell us what you’re building.

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